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Monday, February 27, 2012  The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is offering compost to gardeners, as they look to recycle the 1500 pounds of manure they collect each day from the animals

Friday, February 17, 2012  South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo is getting a rescued female bald eagle that will live in a new exhibit space.

Monday, January 30, 2012  Want to get a giraffe's eye view of the trees above? The Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens is opening a ropes challenge course that will help you with just that.

Saturday, November 05, 2011  The zoo on Saturday is hosting its annual post-Halloween pumpkin smash.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011  The Tyler's Travels team spent another Wild Wednesday at the Riverbanks Zoo, this week with a pair of 7 foot 500 pound bears, lemurs and tamarins.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011  If you have never seen an alligator up close and personal, Tyler would strongly reccommend doing it from the other side of a fence, which you can do, at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden.  In this edition of Wild Wednesdays, we meet Little Boy the alligator, learn about the radiated tortoise, gila monster and more.